Mr. Bush’s team did that assertively [As if GW were any more assertive than anyone else. Again, where's the evidence that President Bush didn't actually believe what he was saying?]. The initial legislation expanding government power after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the “U.S.A. Patriot Act.” The warrantless eavesdropping that became so controversial [It didn't just happen. It took Soros-backed BDS sufferers working 24/7 to ram the big lie down the throats of our fellow Amerians these many years] was rebranded [a favorite principle-free term of our power-hungry fellow Americans on the left side of the aisle] the “Terrorist Surveillance Program.” The enemy was, for a time, dubbed “Islamofascism,” until that was deemed insensitive to Muslims [And just who were these deemers, and what thuggish pressure from Islamofascist front groups led to their deeming that calling a spade a spade was "insensitive to Muslims"?]

"They may be sending 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan, much as Mr.
Bush did to Iraq, but it is not a 'surge,'” continues the blithely history-challenged NYT reporter:

They may still be holding
people captured on the battlefield at the prison at Guantánamo Bay,
Cuba, but they are no longer “enemy combatants.” They may be carrying
the fight to Al Qaeda as their predecessors did, but they are no longer waging a “war on terror.”